Word: raucousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your heart." Following a fast-paced first act, the second half becomes weighed down in soul-searching soliloquies, a last try at serious reflection that comes too late in the show. Otherwise Greater Tuna's frank attitude that life is dull only if you think about it serves up raucous relief from postmodern boredom...
Certainly history bears out the decision. Caspar Weinberger '38 was the last major Administration official to visit campus. His raucous reception a couple of years ago must have been much on the minds of the Corporation Fellows as they deliberated on the subject of honoraries. And leaders of left-of-center student groups have made no bones about their opposition, perhaps a vocal and even violent one, to Reagan's invitation...
...justifications or savage put-downs of those near by. It is hard for an audience to laugh at Iceman without feeling it is further belittling these shriveled lives. Indeed, during a tryout at the Kennedy Center in Washington, spectators seemed to respond to the play's bleakness, not its raucous...
There were cries of "Liar," "Scab" and "Traitor," and thunderous cheers clashed with raucous catcalls. That was the scene at last week's annual conference of the opposition Labor Party, which quickly developed into a shouting match between supporters of centrist Party Leader Neil Kinnock, 43, and Arthur Scargill, 47, the Marxist president of the National Union of Mineworkers. The most contentious issue at the conference was Scargill's proposal that a future Labor government reimburse the N.U.M. nearly $2 million for court fines and costs stemming from the union's violent yearlong strike, which was broken by the Conservative...
...raucous school boycott in New York City reflects the nationwide fear of the fatal disease. The medical facts are far less frightening than the myths. Reagan pre- empts Congress with compromises on South Africa and protectionism. Inside the three legs of the strategic Triad. Test of a satellite killer. Neo- Nazis go on trial in Seattle. Farm Aid: a benefit concert is planned...